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Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain ISBN: 0-679-72325-0 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a master a work
Comment: A blurb on the back dubbed this "a swift, violent story". Yes! Bracing and breathtaking in its economy and speed. Apparently L'Etranger used this as its model. Whether or not you like the early 20c american school of minimalist, hard-boiled writing, this is worth reading for the invigorating pleasure of seeing an absolute master at work. Could be read at a single sitting.
Rating: 4
Summary: A LUCKLESS DRIFTER, AN AMORAL WIFE, A RECKLESS MURDER
Comment: Poolroom hustler, con artist, auto mechanic, bum--Frank Chambers, after being thrown off a hay truck he'd stowed away on the night before, wanders into the Twin Oaks Tavern and talks the owner into a giving him a free lunch. Then the owner offers him a job fixing cars. Frank hesitates. Then he sees the owner's wife. Frank takes the job.
Thus begins this tawdry tale of desperation, lust and lies. Published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its violence and eroticism, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is like back alley fisticuffs--it ain't pretty, but it works.
"I sunk my teeth into her lips so deep I could feel the blood spurt into my mouth. It was running down her neck when I carried her upstairs."
No, this isn't "Romeo and Juliet." It's two careless people who somehow fall in love in spite of each other and then convince themselves they can get away with murder.
The results are less than spectacular.
This story is bare-knuckled, unflinchingly masculine, and briskly told in 116 pages. Frank Chambers himself narrates, peppering the narrative with 1930s colloquialisms and a drifter's outlook.
It's as American as a motorcycle cop on a California highway.
I should also state for the record, both movie versions of this book were terribly miscast.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't tempt fate
Comment: Opportunity may knock once, but fate may ring at your door more than once and has a strange way of turning on you.
The characters in this story went about life without any consideration or thought for anyone but themselves and in doing so, set the stage for an almost comical tragedy! Though it's hard to feel sorry for the main character after his hand in murder, you still do, but only slightly! After all, he did tempt fate, and fate turned on him and gave him what he, and most of the others deserved.
As for the writing, this book gave birth to a genre that we still enjoy today! Hard to believe that a story with the twists and turns of this one could be told so sparcely in words, and yet be so compelling in just over 100 pages! A glimpse into an earlier era, though not much in the way of moral evolution seems to have occured since this was written...
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Title: Double Indemnity by James M. Cain ISBN: 0679723226 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett ISBN: 0679722645 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ISBN: 0394758285 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Ginger Man by James Patrick Donleavy ISBN: 0802137954 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles ISBN: 0880015829 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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